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Gould, Kevin M., and Laura A. Michaelis. "Match, mismatch, and envisioning transfer events." Constructions and Frames 10, no. 2 (2018): 234–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.00020.gou.

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Abstract Prior studies suggest that language users perform motoric simulations when construing action sentences and that verbs and constructions each contribute to simulation-based representation (Glenberg & Kaschak 2002; Richardson et al. 2003; Bergen et al. 2007; Bergen & Wheeler 2010). This raises the possibility that motorically grounded verb and construction meanings can interact during sentence understanding. In this experiment, we use the action-sentence compatibility effect methodology to investigate how a verb’s lexical-class membership, constructional context, and constructio

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Trips, Carola, and Achim Stein. "Contact-Induced Changes in the Argument Structure of Middle English Verbs on the Model of Old French." Journal of Language Contact 12, no. 1 (2019): 232–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01201008.

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This paper investigates contact-induced changes in the argument structure of Middle English verbs on the model of Old French. 1 We study two issues: i) to what extent did the English system retain and integrate the argument structure of verbs copied from French? ii) did the argument structure of these copied verbs influence the argument structure of native verbs? Our study is based on empirical evidence from Middle English corpora as well as a full text analysis of the Ayenbite of Inwyt and focusses on a number of verbs governing a dative in French. In the first part of the paper we define the

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Aoyagi, Hiroshi. "On the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives in Japanese." Journal of Japanese Linguistics 36, no. 1 (2020): 75–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2019-2019.

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AbstractThis paper attempts to elucidate the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives (DCUs). Among the two widely-held diagnostics for subjecthood in Japanese, i. e. zibun-binding and subject honorification, the subject of DCUs passes the former but not the latter. First, recognizing two subtypes of ditransitive verbs, verbs of change of possession (VCPs) and verbs of change of location (VCLs), we will note that DCUs are generally formed on VCPs. Next, given our layered verb phrase hypothesis, the ni-phrase in DCUs as well as VCPs is base-generated in Spec of Low Applicative (L-Appl

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Haugen, Jason D. "Derived Verbs of Possession in Uto-Aztecan: Reconstructions and Paths of Change." Anthropological Linguistics 59, no. 2 (2017): 163–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anl.2017.0005.

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Song, Jae Jung. "Getting three out of two." Ditransitivity 14, no. 1 (2007): 127–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.14.1.08son.

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This article examines the development of the three-participant construction from the two-participant construction in Oceanic languages. This development involves the use of possessive classifiers for recipient or beneficiary marking. Arguments will be put forward in support of the change as an instance of grammaticalization. The change has its origins in pragmatic inferencing: the possessor is construed as a recipient or a beneficiary. Moreover, the change from possession to reception or benefaction is regarded, in terms of reduced structural autonomy, as a shift from a less grammatical to a m

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Daugavet, Anna. "Latvian dabūt 'get': An acquisitive modal?" Baltic Linguistics 6 (December 31, 2015): 9–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/bl.394.

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Depending on the context the Latvian verb dabūt ‘get’ expresses either necessity or possibility in combination with the infinitive, which makes it similar to what is known as “acquisitive modals” in other languages, such as Swedish and Estonian. The Latvian verb is different in that it is implicative rather than modal, i.e. the necessity or possibility that it expresses is always actualized, unless the verb is negated. The use of dabūt with the infinitive has developed from the meaning ‘onset of possession’ alongside other meanings that include ‘displacement/change of state’ and ‘unpleasant ex

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Bauman, Joseph. "From possession to obligation via shifting distributions and particular constructions." Diachronica 33, no. 3 (2016): 297–329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.33.3.01bau.

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Studies of grammaticalization have identified a tendency for verbs of possession to develop modal meanings (Bybee et al. 1994, Heine & Kuteva 2002). I present evidence of the mechanisms contributing to both semantic and structural change in one such instance, the Modern Spanish deontic modal construction [tener que + Inf] “to have to”. Quantitative analysis of a corpus of written texts confirms that this process is gradual and layered, exhibiting semantic changes measurable in the ratio of lexical infinitive types to total tokens of the constructions, changing tendencies in the constructio

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Norvik, Miina. "The expression of change-of-state in the Finnic languages." Open Linguistics 6, no. 1 (2020): 171–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0013.

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AbstractThe present article studies verbs that are used to convey change-of-state in the Finnic languages: “to come”, “to go”, “to remain/stay”, “to get”, “will be”, “to make/do”, and “to be born/give birth”. These are polysemous core verbs, which can be expected to be integrated in constructions with (new) generalized grammatical meaning. As will be shown, in order to convey change-of-state typically they occur in constructions that either mark the goal and the source or leave both unmarked. In addition, change can be associated with experiential, existential, and possessive constructions, wh

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Gronemeyer, Claire. "On deriving complex polysemy: the grammaticalization of get." English Language and Linguistics 3, no. 1 (1999): 1–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674399000118.

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This paper examines the polysemy in the English verb get, which can denote possession, movement, causation, obligation, and change of state among other senses. The analysis builds on a decomposition of get (based on the Benveniste/Freeze/Kayne analysis of possessive constructions) into [ingressive + ‘be’ + preposition]; this lexical entry allows the current polysemy to be derived from a number of reanalyses within different syntactic contexts. Using diachronic data, I show that possession leads to movement as well as stative uses (possession and obligation), movement develops into the causativ

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Li, Wenchao. "On the syntax of anticausativisation and decausativisation in Japanese and Chinese." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS 5, no. 3 (2015): 805–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jal.v5i3.2867.

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This paper is dedicated to a comparison of transitive/intransitive verb alternation in Japanese and Chinese. Discussions are focused upon three grammatical elements: monosyllabic verbs, compound verbs and constructions. The findings reveal that the two languages share similarities in two aspects: (i). transitive and intransitive verbs share the same word form; (ii) transitive and intransitive verbs can derive from the same adjective stems. Significant distinctions are also seen between the two: anticausativisation and decausativisation in Japanese are mainly facilitated in morphological level,

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POUNTAIN, CHRISTOPHER J. "Copulas, Verbs of Possession and Auxiliaries in Old Spanish: The Evidence for Structurally Interdependent Changes." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 62, no. 4 (1985): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.62.4.337.

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Pountain, Christopher J. "Copulas, Verbs of Possession and Auxiliaries in Old Spanish: The Evidence for Structurally Interdependent Changes." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 62, no. 4 (1985): 337–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1475382852000362337.

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Knežević, Božana, and Irena Brdar. "Unaccusatives and unergatives: Evidence from Croatian." Folia Linguistica 48, no. 1 (2014): 61–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flin.2014.003.

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Abstract We argue that the unaccusativity phenomenon occurs in Croatian, as in many other languages. We demonstrate that unaccusative predicates not only have to meet specific (morpho)syntactic diagnostic criteria, but also that semantic criteria are involved. We show that it is possible to characterize Croatian intransitive verbs as unaccusatives using the following diagnostics: 1. past participle derivation by suffixation of -l; 2. participial adjective formation; 3. -ač (-er) nominals; 4. prefixation by the preverbs po-, do- and u-; 5. the perfective aspect; 6. resultative constructions; an

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Bulakh, M. "Verbs of falling in Tigrinya." Acta Linguistica Petropolitana XVI, no. 1 (2020): 677–720. http://dx.doi.org/10.30842/alp2306573716121.

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The paper gives a survey of verbs of falling in Tigrinya (an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia). The employment of each verb related to the situation of falling down is illustrated with phrasal examples. The Tigrinya data is further compared with Geez, a closely related extinct language. A special subsection deals with metaphorical use of the basic verb ‘to fall’ in Tigrinya. Tigrinya possesses one basic verb of falling, wädäḳä, which is applied to describe the downward movement of a solid object through the air or a loss of vertical position of a vertically orient

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Kitamura, Eugene S., and Yukio-Pegio Gunji. "Evolving Lattices for Analyzing Behavioral Dynamics of Characters in Literary Text." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 9, no. 2 (2011): 502–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v9i2.306.

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This paper is about an application of rough set derived lattices in order to analyze the dynamics of literary text. Due to the double approximation nature of rough set theory, a pseudo-closure obtained from two different equivalence relations allows us to form arbitrary lattices. Moreover, such double approximations with different equivalence relations permit us to obtain lattice fixed points based on two interpretations. The two interpretations used for literary text analysis are subjects and their attributes. The attributes chosen for this application are verbs. The progression of a story is

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Kitamura, Eugene S., and Yukio-Pegio Gunji. "Evolving Lattices for Analyzing Behavioral Dynamics of Characters in Literary Text." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 9, no. 2 (2011): 502–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/vol9iss2pp502-509.

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This paper is about an application of rough set derived lattices in order to analyze the dynamics of literary text. Due to the double approximation nature of rough set theory, a pseudo-closure obtained from two different equivalence relations allows us to form arbitrary lattices. Moreover, such double approximations with different equivalence relations permit us to obtain lattice fixed points based on two interpretations. The two interpretations used for literary text analysis are subjects and their attributes. The attributes chosen for this application are verbs. The progression of a story is

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Galeev, Timur I., and Elena V. Habibulina. "Frequency of Verbal Forms and Language Standard." Journal of History Culture and Art Research 6, no. 5 (2017): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v6i5.1250.

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<p>The article offers the description of a modern experiment, which gives the possibility of complex information extraction about the cognitive structure of the linguistic evolution of Language Standart (Norm). The study was conducted using the Google Books Corpus, which provides unprecedented opportunities for linguistic studies. The purpose of the experiment was to identify the patterns of competing forms evolution within the center of the verbal paradigm (3Sg and 3Pl) on the basis of the data concerning the frequency of their use. The study was conducted on the material of excess verb

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Vezzosi, Letizia. "What does āgen mean in the Lindisfarne Gospels?" NOWELE / North-Western European Language Evolution 72, no. 2 (2019): 245–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00029.vez.

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Abstract Aldred’s interlinear glosses added to the Latin text of the Lindisfarne Gospels have undoubtedly an inestimable value as one of the most substantial representatives of late Old Northumbrian. Therefore, they have been an object of study both as a source of information on this Old English variety and on the typological changes affecting Middle English. Starting from the assumption that glosses have an ancillary function with respect to the Latin text they accompany, I have argued in the present paper that they can make a significant contribution to delineating the history and meaning of

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Adger, David. "Structure, use, and syntactic ecology in language obsolescence." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 62, no. 4 (2017): 614–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2017.32.

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AbstractNancy Dorian's foundational work on the loss of Gaelic in the East Sutherland communities continues to provide important insights into the nature of the process of language change in situations of obsolescence. In this article I look at a subset of Dorian's data from the perspective of current syntactic theory, and argue that the connected loss of such apparently different constructions as objects of non-finite verbs, inalienable possessive structures, and a range of passives, and the concomitant restructuring of the grammar, all follow from the interaction between a reduction in agree

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Lumsden, John S. "Possession." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9, no. 1 (1994): 25–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.9.1.03lum.

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This paper compares the notion of "possession" as it is expressed in the verbs of Haitian Creole, French, and Fongbe (a West African language of the Kwa family). It is argued that the notion of possession in verbal semantics is best represented as an implicit argument, i.e., an argument that is present in the semantic representation, but not in the syntax. The implicit argument [POSSESSION] is ambiguous, allowing it to be manifested in the syntactic representation in different ways. The properties of the creole verbs are consistently parallel with those of the Fongbe verbs, and they are often

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Huumo, Tuomas, and Jaakko Leino. "Discontinuous constituents or independent constructions?" Constructions and Frames 4, no. 1 (2012): 56–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.4.1.03huu.

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In many formal theories of grammar, pairs of expressions such as the active and the passive are treated as variants of each other — the passive typically being a secondary construction derived from the active by operations that change the syntactic structure. Recent accounts based on Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar have questioned the validity of such an analysis, arguing that these “variants” are actually independent constructions with their own usage conditions and meaning. An important piece of evidence comes from so-called split constituents, discussed by Croft (2001: 191), who

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Ciucci, Luca. "How to restructure a grammatical category: the innovative person system of Chamacoco (Zamucoan, northern Paraguay)." Folia Linguistica 55, s42-s1 (2021): 111–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flin-2021-2016.

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Abstract Chamacoco is a Zamucoan language of northern Paraguay that has considerably restructured its person reference system. Starting from the existing reconstruction of Proto-Zamucoan, I will analyze the evolution of person marking in free pronouns, verbs and possessable nouns. The verb lost the realis/irrealis distinction in speech act participants, while the third person underwent some allomorphic changes and introduced a distinction between third singular and plural, dependent on an innovative animacy hierarchy. The first person proved overall particularly unstable. In possessable nouns,

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Mikulskas, Rolandas. "Paths of grammaticalization of the Lithuanian copula VIRSTI ‘turn into’: The case of the inclusive copular constructions." Lietuvių kalba, no. 13 (December 20, 2019): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2019.22491.

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In this article I aim to establish source constructions for the inclusive copular construction with the verb virsti ‘turn into’ and to discuss how this once locomotional verb eventually became a copula with an aspectual function in the sentences profiling change events. The research is conducted on the base of data provided by the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language. As I argued in Mikulskas (2018), the copular construction with this verb along with other copular constructions featuring verbs with similar meaning, such as tapti ‘become’, darytis/pasidaryti ‘become’ (lit. ‘make oneself’) and,

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HOVAV, MALKA RAPPAPORT, and BETH LEVIN. "The English dative alternation: The case for verb sensitivity." Journal of Linguistics 44, no. 1 (2008): 129–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226707004975.

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We challenge the predominant view of the English dative alternation, which takes all alternating verbs to have two meanings: a caused possession meaning realized by the double object variant and a caused motion meaning realized by thetovariant. Instead, we argue that verbs likegiveandsellonly have a caused possession meaning, while verbs likethrowandsendhave both caused motion and caused possession meanings. We show that the caused possession meaning may be realized by both variants. Concomitantly, we argue that verbs likegive, even in thetovariant, lack a conceptual path constituent, and inst

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Sówka-Pietraszewska, Katarzyna. "On the inherent semantic meaning of double object Latinate verbs in English in modern and historical perspective *." Questions and Answers in Linguistics 1, no. 1 (2013): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/qal-2015-0002.

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Abstract This paper shows the realization of arguments of Latinate double object verbs and an analysis of their inherent semantic meaning in the Late Middle English and early Modern English periods, hence in the time-span when they were borrowed into English. The main aim of this paper is to show that although Latinate verbs occur in a construction with what seems to be an allative preposition, not all of them lexicalize movement in the inherent meanings. In contrast, some Latinate verbs lexicalize only a caused possession. What is more, this paper shows that the caused possession Latinate ver

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Beavers, John, Elias Ponvert, and Stephen Wechsler. "Possession of a Controlled Substantive: Light ‘have’ and Other Verbs of Possession." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18 (October 3, 2008): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v18i0.2502.

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Hsu, Chung Hsien, Yung-pin Lu, and Chen-hua Hsueh. "Teaching and Learning the Awareness of Existence in English Existential Sentences." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 7, no. 8 (2020): 326–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.78.8795.

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This present study investigates the reasons that cause Chinese students’ difficulties, in learning English existential sentence, there-be structure. A set of questions are designed to examine their awareness of ‘existence’ in both languages. 609 participants attain this study. After data analysis, two findings indicate: (1) Students are used to selecting location as a subject starting an existential sentence which is similar to Chinese syntax, and there-be might be considered of using only when location is not given. (2) With the influence of Chinese syntax, the awareness between the place and

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Fabre, Alain. "Predicative possession in Nivacle." LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas 15, no. 2 (2015): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/liames.v15i2.8642304.

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In this paper, I identify and analyse fourteen predicative possession strategies employed by speakers of Nivacle, a Mataguayo language from the Paraguayan Chaco. It is intriguing that all of these strategies but three are in common use among the speakers. Because quantifiers and numbers surface as verbs in Nivacle, these can be used as possessive predicates, which appears to be another typological rarity. The paper also includes a brief overview of predicative possession in the other three languages of the Mataguayo family.

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Vinet, Marie-Thérèse, and Huijun Zhou. "La possession inaliénable en chinois mandarin et en français." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 32, no. 2 (2003): 157–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19606028_032_02-02.

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This article presents a comparative analysis of inalienable possession structures in French and in Modem Chinese. This research tries to show that similarities exist in the expression of inalienable possession in the two grammars in spite of apparent differences. Several aspects are discussed, namely the distinct grammatical forms used to capture permanent possession, shared conceptual domains in both languages as well as verbs which express body movements, pronounced and unpronounced features of D (determiner) heads, open to the interpretation of inalienable possession.

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Teti, Tom. "A Change of Verbs." After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 5 (2021): 118–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20212546.

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How much of your life is trapped in social norms? What would you say if you were free to say what you really thought? How would you live your life differently? In this work of philosophical short fiction, Simon in a married, middle aged, college professor. Inch by inch, day by day, over his life he has given up his freedom to social norms. He stays quiet in his true thoughts in the face of his wife, and his co-workers. One day, something changes, and he decides to “change his verbs.” He tells his wife what he thinks. He tells his students what he thinks. He says no to attending pointless meeti

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Luraghi, Silvia, Chiara Naccarato, and Erica Pinelli. "The u+gen construction in Modern Standard Russian." Cognitive Linguistics 31, no. 1 (2020): 149–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2018-0001.

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AbstractIn Modern Standard Russian (MSR), the prefix/preposition pair u-/u is peculiar with respect to other similar pairs, due to the meaning mismatch between the two. While the prefix u- has an ablative meaning, as shown when it is prefixed to motion verbs, the prepositional phrase u+gen occurs in locative constructions, and other related constructions, such as predicative possession that is expressed via the cross-linguistically common Locative Schema. Etymological considerations show that the meaning preserved by the prefix is older. The only type of occurrence which, according to the lite

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Andersen, Torben. "External possession of body-part nouns in Dinka." Linguistics 57, no. 1 (2019): 127–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2018-0033.

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Abstract In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, body-part nouns may be externally possessed. External possession is possible and the default option if the body-part noun is semantically part of a transitive object, an unaccusative subject, or a copula subject. With transitive and ditransitive verbs, the external possessor is object, and with intransitive and copulative verbs, it is subject. Externally possessed body-part nouns have no grammatical relation to the verb, and they are restricted to occurring in dedicated syntactic slots of the clause, adjacent to a slot used by the main verb when t

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Escobar, Linda, and Ismael Teomiro. "The gradual acquisition of clitic “se” in Spanish L2." Topics in Linguistics 17, no. 1 (2016): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/topling-2016-0002.

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AbstractIn this study, we analyse the nature of clitic “se” and low applicatives in Spanish L2 through the study of the non-native acquisition of this clitic by L1 English adult learners. In particular, we are going to discuss the question of how English adults acquire this clitic in the different syntactic configurations where it appears (anticausative inchoative verbs, inherent reflexive verbs, transitive verbs implying an inalienable possession relation, consumption verbs and non-anticausative inchoative verbs). Our main research hypothesis is that the acquisition of clitic “se” with some t

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Chappell, Hilary, and Denis Creissels. "Topicality and the typology of predicative possession." Linguistic Typology 23, no. 3 (2019): 467–532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0016.

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Abstract Recent accounts on the typology of predicative possession, including those by Stassen, recognise a Topic Possessive type with the possessee coded like the figure in an existential predication, and the possessor coded as a topic that is not subcategorised by the predicate and is not related to any syntactic position in the comment, literally: As for Possessor, there is Possessee. The Asian region is explicitly singled out as being a Topic Possessive area. On the basis of a sample of 71 languages from the four main language families of continental East and Southeast Asia – Sino-Tibetan,

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Beavers, J. "An Aspectual Analysis of Ditransitive Verbs of Caused Possession in English." Journal of Semantics 28, no. 1 (2010): 1–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffq014.

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Henderson, Robert. "Quantizing scalar change." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 23 (August 24, 2013): 473. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v23i0.2674.

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This paper provides a new analysis of N-BY-N adverbials that captures their previously unrecognized close connection to verbs of scalar change. After providing a series of arguments that N-BY-N modification requires the VP to provide a scalar interval it can measure, we use this as novel evidence that incremental theme verbs, as well as inherently directed motion and change of state verbs, must make reference to scales. The analysis thus supports a unified scalar account of verbs of variable telicity (e.g., Hay, Kennedy & Levin 1999; Kennedy & Levin 2008; Kennedy 2012). Finally, we sho

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van Gelderen, Elly. "Stability and Change in Intransitive Argument Structure." Open Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2019): 217–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0013.

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AbstractThe argument structure of verbs is pretty uniform across languages. Thus, verbs of `falling’ involve a Theme and an optional Causer and verbs of `working’ an Agent. Aspect is relevant to that uniformity as well since the former verbs will be telic and the latter durative. Stative verbs form a third main class. I first show that, when (spoken/written) languages change, the basic argument structure and aspect don’t change for most unaccusatives and unergatives. There are, however, systematic reports (e.g. Rosen 1984; Keller & Sorace 2003; Randall et al 2004) that certain verbs are un

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Armstrong, Grant. "Te puse la mano en el hombro ‘I put my hand on your shoulder’." Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 7 (September 7, 2021): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.146.

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The main goal of this paper is to provide a solution to a puzzle regarding a constraint on multiple external possession relations in Spanish prepositional double object verbs like poner ‘put.’ When both the direct object and prepositional object are body parts with different external possessors, the subject must be the possessor of the direct object body part and a dative clitic the possessor the prepositional object body part, not the other way around. Assuming that possessor movement to theta positions is what gives rise to external possession, I claim that the unacceptable interpretation is

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Yulikova, N. M. "Valency change of English verbs." Acta Linguistica Petropolitana XVI, no. 3 (2020): 837–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.30842/alp2306573716326.

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Beavers, John, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. "Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs." Language 93, no. 4 (2017): 842–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2017.0060.

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Deo, Ashwini Sharad, Itamar Francez, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. "From change to value difference." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 23 (August 24, 2013): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v23i0.2664.

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Degree achievements and directed motion verbs are standardly taken to describe events in which an individual undergoes change over time. The spatial uses of these verbs, giving rise to what are known as their extent readings, indicate that a temporal change based semantics is not general enough to capture their behavior. In this paper, we introduce a further range of facts that argues for a fully general analysis of the meaning of degree achievements and directed motion verbs in terms of value difference rather than temporal change. These verbs are uniformly analyzed as intensional verbs that

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Schermer, Ina. "‘Onvervreemdbaar bezit’ verschillend benaderd." Nederlandse Taalkunde 26, no. 1 (2021): 121–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/nedtaa2021.1.005.sche.

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Abstract In this paper I explain the difference between the notions possessive dative and possessive accusative as used by me and other linguists like Vandeweghe (e.g. 1986 and 1987) and the notions dative and accusative inalienable possessors as used in ). It is not so much the difference in the descriptive system I want to focus on, but the difference in aim. Broekhuis et al. want to specify the syntactic encoding of ‘inalienable possession’ and come to the conclusion that the possessor of the inalienable possession is always the referent of an indirect object, be it on different syntactic l

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Eddington, David. "Disambiguating Spanish Change of State Verbs." Hispania 85, no. 4 (2002): 921. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4141261.

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Wright, Saundra K. "Transitivity and Change of State Verbs." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 28, no. 1 (2002): 339. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v28i1.3849.

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In this paper, I argue that semantic and pragmatic properties—as opposed to syntactic properties—are responsible for the variability found with transitive uses of change of state verbs. In particular, a variety of factors combine together to determine the argument expression options associated with an individual verb. These factors include controllability (the degree to which an event can be externally manipulated), causer type (whether the event is human driven or nonhuman driven), and subject-modification (whether the causer is in a modified or unmodified form). Finally, I argue that it is p

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Fitria, Tira Nur. "An Analysis of Derivational and Inflectional Morpheme in Selected News From Tempo.Co." Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies 9, no. 2 (2020): 146–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v9i2.40348.

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The objectives of this research are to know the derivational and inflectional morphemes and to know the functions of morpheme in the selected news from Tempo.co. This research uses qualitative method. The analysis shows that the derivational and inflectional morphemes found in Tempo.co as 357 words. Derivational shows 97 data (27.17 %) and inflectional shows 260 data (72.83 %). Derivational changes the grammatical categories of words which consists of suffix and prefix, for example, noun-forming suffix changes the words/morphemes to nouns in the suffix –ion, -ment, -ist, -ship and –er. Adjecti

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Mazzitelli, Lidia Federica. "Predicative possession in the languages of the Circum-Baltic area." Folia Linguistica 51, no. 1 (2017): 1–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flin-2017-0001.

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AbstractThis paper deals with the linguistic means used to express predicative possession in the languages of the Circum-Baltic area. The domain of possession is considered here as a prototypically organized domain, where the prototype is the notion of ownership. It is shown that most languages of the area do not provide evidence of splits in their possession systems: rather, they extend the scope of use of their ownership constructions to include all other non-prototypical possessive notions. The linguistic expression of notions that belong to domains neighboring possession, namely experience

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Johnson, Cynthia A., Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov, Esther Le Mair, and Jóhanna Barðdal. "Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change." Diachronica 36, no. 4 (2019): 463–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.00014.bar.

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Abstract In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering six conceptual metaphors which all co-occur with non-canonical encoding of subjects in Indo-European. Careful scrutiny of the relevant data reveals a semantic development most certainly inherited from Indo-European; hence, we reconstruct a dat-‘succeeds’ construction at different levels of sch

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Labelle, Marie. "Change of state and valency." Journal of Linguistics 28, no. 2 (1992): 375–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700015267.

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The goal of this article is twofold. First, I explore the hypothesis that a number of regularities in the distribution of the two types of inchoative constructions with verbs of change of state in French, the superficially intransitive construction and the reflexive construction (illustrated in (1)–(3)), can be captured by an analysis whereby monovalent verbs of change of state may project the Patient argument to the subject or to the object position. When the Patient argument is projected to the subject position (as in (1a) and (3a)), the construction is unergative. When it is projected to th

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FORBES, JAMES N., and DIANE POULIN-DUBOIS. "Representational change in young children's understanding of familiar verb meaning." Journal of Child Language 24, no. 2 (1997): 389–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000997003127.

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The ability to generalize verbs to new examples of previously labelled events demonstrates an implicit understanding that verbs are representative symbols of categories of events. The present study examined when and how very young children generalize familiar verbs to novel events by using the preferential looking paradigm. Overall, 24 children aged 1;8 and 25 children aged 2;2 demonstrated their understanding of the verbs kick and pick-up by looking significantly longer at the target events on control trials. Additionally, children aged 1;8 with the largest expressive vocabulary generalized t

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Essegbey, James, and Felix K. Ameka. "“Cut” and “break” verbs in Gbe and Sranan." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22, no. 1 (2007): 37–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.22.1.04ess.

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This paper compares “cut” and “break” verbs in four variants of Gbe, namely Anfoe, Anlo, Fon and Ayizo, with those of Sranan. “Cut” verbs are change-of-state verbs that co-lexicalize the type of action that brings about a change, the type of instrument or instrument part, and the manner in which a change occurs. By contrast, break verbs co-lexicalize either the type of object or the type of change. It has been hypothesized that “cut”-verbs are unergative while breaks verbs are unaccusatives. For example “break” verbs participate in the causative alternation constructions but “cut” verbs don’t.

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